Hello Tim (and other valued contributors to this thread)I have an alternate suggestion for the poormans GO-flight equipment. Its actually based on the original idea from Erik Wachters (Username E.W. here in this forum - go and look up his threads... they are quite inspriring). The xkeys (www.xkeys.com) matrix board has provision for up to 128 switches. Thats actually a lot of switches. You need off course to do some wiring and stuff but that shouldn't be a problem.With good help from collegues I have actually figured out to tame rotary encoders (using gray enconding) so I dont have to buy finished circuitboards to control these (these are usually expensive). You need 3 logic ICs(they tick for less than a 1$ a piece) and put them on a board and connect them to the encoder and you are rolling. With a little bit of sweating and soldering you can acually make everyting you want for only a fraction of the $ a goflight instrument costs. You can even expand it to MCP or even CDU.I know that by now you are probably well under way with the "belkin solution". But the Xkeys might be an idea for your next project???On a sidenote I would like to say that its nice to see more threads about home cockpit building using PMDG products. And I was very happy to see in another thread that PMDG said that they wanted to cater a little for "simpitters" in their upcomming projects.Best regardsMichael Christiansen, Karup - Denmark

Tim, Your image isn't showing up any longer. Could you repost it here so that I could take a look at it? Or, send it along to my email address: [email protected] Thanks! Alan Liebowitz

>Tim,>> Your image isn't showing up any longer. Could you repost it>here so that I could take a look at it? Or, send it along to>my email address: [email protected]>> Thanks!> Alan LiebowitzI'm gonna update my little excerpt on using FSUIPC with controllers and repost it on the web... look for it tomorrow.

Which website? I would be interested in the Belkin profile. I just purchased an N52, and if I don't have to reinvent the wheel....Thanks in advance for all the information you've shared and will be sharing.Wes

>>Tim,>>>> Your image isn't showing up any longer. Could you repost>it here >> Alan Liebowitz >>I'm gonna update my little excerpt on using FSUIPC with>controllers and repost it on the web... look for it tomorrow.Tim, thank you for the hints, tips, solutions, etc., that you pass along to those on this thread, and other ones as well I'm sure.Your mention of the posting "look for it tomorrow" appeared just a few days after I returned to flight simming and unfortunately I missed it and have not yet figured out how to search for a particular post.My Nostromo n52 arrived in the mail yesterday. As others, I sure don't want to reinvent the wheel so would appreciate it if I could get a link to a post or an email with your settings.Thanks.

>>>Tim,>>>>>> Your image isn't showing up any longer. Could you repost>>it here >>> Alan Liebowitz >>>>I'm gonna update my little excerpt on using FSUIPC with>>controllers and repost it on the web... look for it>tomorrow.>>Tim, thank you for the hints, tips, solutions, etc., that you>pass along to those on this thread, and other ones as well I'm>sure.>>Your mention of the posting "look for it tomorrow" appeared>just a few days after I returned to flight simming and>unfortunately I missed it and have not yet figured out how to>search for a particular post.>>My Nostromo n52 arrived in the mail yesterday. As others, I>sure don't want to reinvent the wheel so would appreciate it>if I could get a link to a post or an email with your>settings.>>Thanks.>http://www.metzair.com/flightsim/flightsim.html